Friday, August 13, 2010

I've been falling a little behind on my Mercedes payments, and the jacuzzi in the servants quarters at the summer home needs a little work, so I had to redesign the blog to allow for more advertising space.

These are only aesthetic changes, and will not affect the confusing, awkward navigation you've grown to love. Over the next few days, if you see any weirdness, visually or otherwise, do not be alarmed. Thanks!

Scrolling with the scroll bar seems a bit better but still a bit jerky, which I like when it's beef but not so much when it comes to web pages. Scrolling with the arrow keys is painfully slow.

I'm not sure it's connection speed.

The page loads fairly quickly for me.

I watched the connection with WireShark (a network monitoring tool) and didn't see any traffic on the line when I was scrolling.

The videos play fine, at least at the lower resolution. At 480p sometimes the playback will stall momentarily, which I expect, since I'm on a relatively slow line (1.5 MBit down, 0.25 MBit up ADSL for technical reasons I won't bore you with).

I honestly think most viewing/user problems that some are having are individual, not site generated. I have not experienced any difference from what it was before your makeover. If it's not happening for everyone then the likelihood of the site causing the problem is almost nil. Sorry to those who are having problems, but Chef John, please get back to the stove. Your site works! Wonderfully! No further adjustments necessary!

To be honest I preferred the earlier design :(Simple designs are more aesthetically appealing for me.The background looks pixelated on my 28inch monitor, scrolling is a little jerky, and the redesign imho creates a spammy, myspace kind of look....